# RIP Jack Kamen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jack-kamen/460090 "2008-08-15T13:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jack-kamen/460090/1 "2008-08-15T13:01:14Z")
Slightly belated, but I only just noticed that another of the great [EC Comics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Comics) artists died earlier this month, this time [Jack Kamen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kamen), from cancer. I always liked the fact that while his style was very much one of romance/Good Girl comics, EC used him for [QUOTE=Wikipedia] “… those stories where the All-American girl and guy are married, and then chop each other to pieces.” – Al Feldstein [/QUOTE] [Here](http://www.sci.fi/~karielk/kamefact.htm) is a link to a site with more biographical information and some samples of his work. Oh, and he was the father of Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jack-kamen/460090/2 "2008-08-18T21:07:10Z")
[QUOTE=ColonelDax] Slightly belated, but I only just noticed that another of the great [EC Comics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Comics) artists died earlier this month [/QUOTE] Another? Who else passed recently? Now I get the ‘2008’s been a bad year for comics creators’ reference in a thread about the passing of [Carlos Meglia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Meglia) on another community, though… ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@King\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bear)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jack-kamen/460090/3 "2008-08-20T00:33:29Z")
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